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...light, a cornucopia of opportunity, freedom and the little courtesies available wherever the customer is king. "They're so nice," chortled housewife Gerda Hubner as she walked out of a brand new Meyer food market on East Berlin's Leipziger Strasse. She carried a shopping bag with a few meager purchases -- milk, oranges, bread and cheese. She also carried a yellow rosebud. "They're giving these to all the ladies," she said. "They really want our business." The Meyer chain is one of hundreds of West German companies that have moved with lightning speed into a potentially lucrative market: East...
...Eastern Europe since World War II. The transaction gave GE control of a respected 100-year-old company that last year exported nearly two-thirds of its output, or $180 million worth of bulbs, to West European countries, which pay in hard currency. The deal boosts GE's meager 1% share of Western Europe's lighting market to 9%. That share could prove particularly valuable if the European Community decides to impose quotas on non-Community products after it becomes economically unified...
...used its riverfront location to attract nine casinos since 1986. The town boasts more than 4,000 rooms in such hotels as Harrah's Del Rio and Circus Circus's Colorado Belle. Another 5,500 rooms are being built. However, the frantic pace of construction has strained Laughlin's meager civic resources. The town suffers from shortages of housing, labor and water and must send high school students across the river to Bullhead City, Ariz., until its own school can be built...
Hard times will aggravate the problem. Economists fear that the sluggish U.S. economy, which grew at a meager 1.3% pace in the first quarter, could help put an increasing number of debt-laden firms into bankruptcy court...
...king's daughter, Imogen, played by Lyn Wright, has a similarly meager repertoire of gestures. Furthermore, her flat delivery and stilted English accent can only irritate. When Imogen urges her servant, Pisanio, to "plunge thy dagger into the mansion of my love, my heart," the viewer is sorely tempted...